A.P. Lawrence

tape hwconfig

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Wojtek propounded (on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:45:08PM +0200):
| Hwconfig does not show type or vendor of  tape devices, only SCSI
| parameters.
| 

'cdrecord -scanbus'
Cdrecord is easy to compile, or get it from Skunkware.

-- 
JP